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TIL FEMA has a Waffle House Index to measure storm damage
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TIL human jaws have been shrinking since the invention of farming, but have shrunk even faster in the past couple of centuries due to people eating softer food and spending more time indoors.
lonk7
Physicists have confirmed a pear-shaped nucleus, and it could ruin time travel forever.
D44J
TIL A Saudi businessman offered US$10 million to buy the shoes thrown at President Bush in a press conference in 2008.
K48R
TIL that scientists concluded from the lines of fossilized corals that some million years ago a year had 420 days
E1nd0
TIL of Carl Laemmle, who migrated to the US in 1884. He started one of the first movie theaters in Chicago, challenged Thomas Edison's monopoly on films, began advertising stars to increase their earnings, founded Universal and sponsored hundreds of Jews to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the US.